Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey everyone, my name is Justin Richmond, and this
Speaker 1: show started from the bottom as an origin that's probably
Speaker 1: familiar to a lot of you listening. I was always
Speaker 1: told growing up that college would be my ticket. It
Speaker 1: was the end all be all. No one in my
Speaker 1: family had ever completed a degree. So by the time
Speaker 1: I transferred to UC Berkeley in twenty eleven, I thought
Speaker 1: that as long as I made it through the next
Speaker 1: two years, i'd made it. Of course, it was really
Speaker 1: only the beginning. I had no idea what came next,
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do for a living, or what
Speaker 1: making a living even was. I was lost, and so
Speaker 1: I started doing what I used to do as a kid.
Speaker 1: Anytime I saw a brother who looked like me in
Speaker 1: a Benz or a suit, I started asking successful black
Speaker 1: men and women i'd see around what they did for me.
Speaker 1: It seems like the only way I could figure any
Speaker 1: of this out, and so that's when I'd be for
Speaker 1: This show struck me to sert. Interviewing successful people who
Speaker 1: grew up on the outside, people of color, people who
Speaker 1: weren't part of the old boys network, people who grew
Speaker 1: up in a world where almost nobody went to college.
Speaker 1: How did they do it? How did they beat the
Speaker 1: odds while also beating away the nagging feeling of being
Speaker 1: an imposture, of feeling like an outsider. This is started
Speaker 1: from the bottom, hard earned success stories from people like
Speaker 1: us coming soon. Wherever you get your podcasts,